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What I’ve learnt: Alex James

‘Musicians all end up living on farms. Something to do with all those years living out of a suitcase’

Harriet Addison

September 5 2015, 11:59am, The Times

Alex JamesCharlie Forgham-Bailey/Eyevine

Musician Alex James, 46, is the bass player with Blur. He is also a cheesemaker and food writer, and lives with his wife, Claire, and their five children on his farm in Oxfordshire, where they host Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival.

If my kids learn one thing from me, I want it to be that they are as comfortable on a camp site as in a castle. As at home in a builder’s van as a Bentley. Enjoy a grouse as much as a Greggs sausage roll. Enjoy everything that life has to offer.

Touring the world and getting p***ed for ten years is great, but it does get a bit repetitive after that. Marriage happens at the right time.